Slightly Weighty

To celebrate the third issue of LONTAR, we have two things: 1) a special week-long promotion bundling issues #1 and #2 for free when you buy #3, and 2) an exclusive interview by editor Jason Lundberg with the husband-and-wife team of Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar, whom one could make the case are the […]

“Assuming that bricks and mortar books stores do vanish, where will we buy books in future. Amazon obviously. ABE books for second hand? Oh, they are owned by Amazon. The Book Depository? Oh, they are owned by Amazon. See where I’m going with this?”

Which is where someone like Wizard’s Tower or us come along! We’re in it to keep the world a more interesting place: we want to make sure that indie books don’t get delisted, recategorized, or made unavailable by one huge retailer.

Besides: we have some excellent coupons for the holidays—these are good through 11:59 p.m. EST on November 30. (Will we have a post-Xmas sale? I don’t know . . . tell me if you’re interested!)

Hmmmm. Have tried the “Small” coupon (same capitalization and everything) with books solely from the Small Beer/Big Mouth category and I keep getting a “Cart does not meet the minimum requirement for this coupon!” Or have I jumped the gun on the coupon and it’s not up and running yet?

What happens if I renew my subscription before I have 0 issues left? (I am down to one issue left for my Lightspeed subscription so I should renew for January 2012). If I renew now, will I get sent the current issue again and the new subscription starts right now instead of in January? Okay, this might be a dumb question, but I thought I’d rather ask.

Monika,
You’ll get the current issue again in the order confirmation email, but your new subscription won’t count that repeat issue–your next 12 issues will start with the next issue in January as they should.

Lisa, thanks for this note—looks like there was yet another bug in the system. But it should be fixed now (Greg, this should apply to you, too) and all the Small Beer titles should now be 50% off—at last!

For anybody still having trouble with coupons, here’s how to do it: first add whatever books you want to your cart, then enter the coupon code in the field below where it says Enter Coupon Code:, then click Apply, then click Check Out with PayPal.

Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich is only available as a PDF – is it supposed to be this way or is it an oversight? B/c I was thinking of using the small coupon to buy it, but I would vastly prefer mobi format – pdfs don’t work well on Kindle and sometimes there are wonky formatting errors with Calibre conversion.

Unfortunately we only have Meet Me in the Moon Room in PDF form right now–probably because it’s one of Small Beer’s oldest titles and hasn’t been converted yet. But I sent them your request, and we’ll definitely let you know when other formats become available. If you want to buy the book now at the sale price, when we do get the other formats they’ll appear on your Library page and you can download them for free.